Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 8/1/26 07:53, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
> 
>> On 31/07/2026 17:54, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Why would I, when it takes about ten seconds to boot?
>>>
>>> Cleans out the kruft 🙂
>>
>> I generally find closing Firefox does that on mine
>>
>> It is a memory hog.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Otoh, the always-on mini PC would use up all the RAM and the
> swap and then go nuts trying to clean it up.
> 
> Finally traced it to picom (compositor). It's got major memory
> leaks. Restarting it would clean out gigabtyes worth.
> 
> I got tired of doing it manually (or forgetting to do it), so made
> a cron job that runs at 2 AM.
> 
> Why do I put up with picom? I find it helpful in my workflow.

   IF you can afford it, pick a time of day and
   just use crontab to reboot the unit maybe once
   a week. That'll clean out the crud.